I noticed on the local news that an F-22 from Tyndall which crashed a few months ago was caused by a frayed wire.
It just seems there is no excuse for something like that.
Is it just me or does it seem like all fighters are more or less the same thing now?
My favorite, most reliable and cost-effective fighter jet ever built.
God Love the Super Bug.
“Electronics dominate, so now the airframe can really be anything. You have F4s that are more modern than, say, Pakistani F16s.”
You are more right than you probably know. An F-4 would be a fantastically performing fighter-bomber today aerodynamically. The problem is in internal logistics. The F-4 (and later, the F-14) were not designed internally for the volume of electronics and computerization that the we now have. They internal architecture, and thus the allocation of components, is all out of whack today. You had volume in those days but it was deemed and laid out in entirely different ways for different means.